On page 4, there is an "IDE Power" connector. It looks a lot like a 4 pin CPU fan connector, but it (obviously) provides different voltages that are appropriate for 3.5" IDE drives (5V, 12V) and ...

Yeah, you definately wont be able to find a board without that nowadays. In fact most of them are moving to ATX12V 2.0 which adds 4 pins to the big connector as well. I think they do make adapters ...

This prototype PCB featured not one, not two, but 4 x 16-pin power connectors and a 45-phase power delivery which is bonkers. Each of the 16-pin power connectors can use up to 600W of power, ...

Similar News Stories. NVIDIA prototype PCBs for RTX 4090, RTX 5090 had 4 x 16-pin connectors: up to 2400W of power; ASUS RTX 5090 BTF 2.5 connector pushes over 1000W power, more reliable than 16 ...

Custom models of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, one of the first graphics cards to leverage AMD's all-new RDNA 4 architecture, may not feature 12VHPWR, the 16-pin power connector that some NVIDIA users ...

NVIDIA and many others investigated the melting plugs, and the conclusion was that it was too easy to mess up plugging in the 12+4-pin power connector, leading to poor fitment and bad connections.

The 8-pin EPS connector stands for (Entry Level Power Supply) and is an important connector for your CPU in all motherboard connectors. It is located on the top left of all motherboards if we look ...

Intel itself doesn’t have any graphics cards that use this connector yet — it really doesn’t need a 12+4-pin connector that can supply up to 600 watts of power to the graphics card.

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and… ...